r/moderatepolitics • u/ilikedomos • 20h ago

News Article Trump reconsidering $1.8 billion fund, AP source says, as Justice Department temporarily pauses it

https://apnews.com/article/trump-justice-fund-jan6-capitol-riot-39b193211349b42e6218c5a1007785c9
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u/ilikedomos 20h ago

Report is coming out that the Trump administration has agreed to temporarily halt a controversial $1.776 billion compensation "Anti-Weaponization Fund," following a federal court order. Trump may potentially just drop the entire fund too based on what people seem to be saying.

From the announcement of the fund, there has been backlash by both sides of the aisle regarding the fund leading to Senate has paused passing funding for Trump's immigration enforcement. Republicans, seem to either want a limitation on the fund, like who can be a recipient, or to scrap it altogether.

According to the reporting there seems to be some uncertainty regarding whether the Trump Administration and the DOJ is actually dropping the fund, or if they're just putting a pause on it until say the funding is voted on.

The decision to pause seems to have been made after US District Judge Leonie Brinkema issued a ruling with a hearing scheduled for June 12 on whether to extend the order or not.

  • Do we think the Trump Administration will actually drop the fund issue or will they actually provide a full framework of how oversight for the fund will be managed?

  • Do we think this is more of a situation where Trump is just creating the media news knowing full well that it was going to be hindered by the courts?

  • Another interesting point is, will the agreement for the IRS no longer being able to audit Trumps, his family and other associates prior returns still hold?

In some ways reminds me of the Biden Student Loan situation where it was well known the likelihood of such an action was never going to succeed, but it provided at least the guise of "we tried guys but the courts stopped us!"

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u/CloudApprehensive322 17h ago

My gut says that Trump brings back the fund the second the reconciliation bill funding Border Patrol and ICE passes the Senate. Trump doesn't care about the optics at all - his entire attention span is on his big birthday party/250th anniversary celebration, the ballroom, and the monuments with his name being illegally constructed.

The man has not shown an iota of concern towards the things voters actually care about - inflation, housing costs, health insurance, housing, AI destroying jobs, or a host of issues that cause the average voter to worry about on a daily basis.